Courses
For a list of current course descriptions for Spring 2024 click here.For a list of current course descriptions for Summer 2024 click here.
For a list of current course descriptions for Fall 2024 click here.
Spring 2024
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: R.O. Anderson Grad Sch of Mgmt 117
- Type: Lecture
1110.002
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 234
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Barnes, William
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.005
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introduction to the history, beliefs, practices, and development of the early Christian religion as reflected in the New Testament, using a historical and critical approach, with attention given to understanding its socio-cultural and political environment.
Introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment. In units arranged by religion or region (North American indigenous religion, African religion, Hinduism, Chinese religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), students will learn how religious beliefs and practices relate to rites of passage, sexuality, women’s health, diet, mental health, trauma, and end of life issues. In addition to assessing students’ knowledge of the relationship between religion and perspectives on health and medical care and treatment, course assignments will raise students awareness of how people with different worldviews interact. Course requirements or activities also will teach them how to evaluate their own biases and how to assess the biases and credibility of various sources of information about religion, health, and medicine found on the Internet and elsewhere.
1550.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1550.002
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2110.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Ortega Hall 107
- Type: Lecture
2110.006
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.008
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.009
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.010
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2120.003
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introduction to the origin and development of mystical aspects of Islam, commonly known as Sufism. The course examines themes such as Sufism vis-à-vis Islamic orthodoxy, mystical experience, the literary heritage of Sufism, Sufi organizations.
314.004
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Time/s:
Location: Humanities 428
- Rescheduled from CRN 62342 RELG 314 003.
- Type: Lecture
A historical survey of Buddhist practices, beliefs, material culture, institutions, and figures from the time of the historical Buddha through to the contemporary period.
332.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Bandelier Hall East 105
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.002 Catholic Saints N. America
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Time/s:
Location: Social Sciences 1111
- Type: Topics
347.003 T: Gender & The Bible
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.004 T: African American Religions
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Type: Topics
347.005 T: Global Curanderismo
Instructor: Del Angel Guevara, Mario
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.
441.001
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instructions. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Seminar
An examination and critique of influential 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century scientific attempts to explain religion in contrast to supernaturalist theories. Also considered are some postmodernist and evolutionary psychology perspectives on religion. Prerequisite: one upper-division course in Religious Studies.
452.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: Ortega Hall 115
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as ITAL *475) Principally the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy.
475.001
Instructor: Duke, Rachele
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 115
- Type: Seminar
Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.
497.001
Instructor: ,
- Type: Seminar
497.002
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
- Type: Seminar
497.003
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.004
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.005
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.006
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.007
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.009
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.010
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.011
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.012
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:
- Type: Seminar
Tutorial arrangement with a member of the graduate faculty.
551.001
Instructor: ,
- Type: Lecture
551.002
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Summer 2024
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2110.002
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as AFST 303) Students will be introduced to the Black experience, which necessitates the redefinition of God and Jesus Christ in the lives of Black people as the struggle for transcendental and political freedom.
303.001
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Fall 2024
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
1110.002
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: Kiva
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.008
Instructor: Barnes, William
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introduction to the history, beliefs, practices, and development of the early Christian religion as reflected in the New Testament, using a historical and critical approach, with attention given to understanding its socio-cultural and political environment.
1126.001
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment. In units arranged by religion or region (North American indigenous religion, African religion, Hinduism, Chinese religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), students will learn how religious beliefs and practices relate to rites of passage, sexuality, women’s health, diet, mental health, trauma, and end of life issues. In addition to assessing students’ knowledge of the relationship between religion and perspectives on health and medical care and treatment, course assignments will raise students awareness of how people with different worldviews interact. Course requirements or activities also will teach them how to evaluate their own biases and how to assess the biases and credibility of various sources of information about religion, health, and medicine found on the Internet and elsewhere.
1550.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1550.002
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2110.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Shetiya, Vibha
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2120.003
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as AFST 303) Students will be introduced to the Black experience, which necessitates the redefinition of God and Jesus Christ in the lives of Black people as the struggle for transcendental and political freedom.
303.001
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This course examines the life and role of the Prophet Muhammad, the message of the Qur'an, and the history of the theological, philosophical, legal, and mystical dimensions of Islam to the present.
312.001
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as CLST 321) This course examines the development of the genre of apocalypse by reading several early Jewish apocalypses before examining the lasting influence of apocalypticism in one particular Jewish sect, Christianity.
321.001
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 Death & Rebirth in Asian Relig
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Topics
347.002 T: Sex and Religion
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.003 T: Mysticism: East & West
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.005 AI and the Human
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Topics
347.006 Catholicism in America
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Topics
An introduction exploring relationships between the literary and religious traditions. {Fall}
350.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.
441.002
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Seminar
Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.
497.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
- Type: Seminar
497.002
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
- Type: Seminar
497.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.004
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.005
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.006
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.009
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.010
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.011
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:
- Type: Seminar